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… carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground … allows plants to better survive in those environments,”  Karen Serrano said. She is first author of this paper and a … mycorrhizal symbiosis in other bioenergy grasses, like sorghum and switchgrass. We’re optimizing systems now, so …

… and Kevin Solomon of the University of Delaware. Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the … development. Maurice is a fungal evolutionary ecologist with interests in understanding which processes change … challenges. She’s worked with the JGI on poplar and sorghum projects, specifically for generating libraries of …

… lead the Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory. Together with his colleague Douglas Schmidt and UC Davis professor … researchers engaged the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), with support of the US Department of Energy Office of … the bark of oaks and threaten the health of the tree. While drought conditions may slow the progress of SOD, the …

… and we talk about an ongoing project I’ve been working with him on as an exploration into the secondary metabolism … territory for us, and I’m grateful to be working with him, and so happy we got the chance to record this … that this episode will be monumental as the last episode with Alison as my co-host. We recorded this an awfully long …

… anaerobic fungi could be used to effectively modify lignin without oxygen and make use of it, it would change the … is well-established: Across all life forms and with little exception, organisms have figured out how to … cultivated anaerobic fungi (Neocallimastix californiae) on sorghum, switchgrass and poplar, then monitored changes to …

… genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as  Sorghum bicolor — a  candidate bioenergy feedstock and  JGI … Plants that the zealexin pathway has an “hourglass” shape with diverse precursors in, and many different products out, … data from these lines to identify genes associated with zealexin synthesis. The researchers used proteomics to …

… was applied to a recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. … stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes with specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that … genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other plant-associated fungi. Their … Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) studied how fungi associate with roots in A. thaliana plants. The work also involved …